Little Miracles

An old woman was brought to our hospital yesterday and was confined (I do not know the reason for hospitalization though). The woman was very weak and seemed to be close to dying. Sure enough, at 12.30 pm today the old lady was pronounced dead. The doctors did resuscitation for approximately five minutes but then had to concede to the fact that the woman was dead. The woman stopped breathing, there was no heart rate and no blood pressure. Just to reiterate, the lady was dead.

At 1.45 pm a student nurse aide calmly told the head nurse "Ma'am, gumalaw po si lola." The head nurse, thinking that the movement was because the body was starting to rigor brushed the idea off and explained to the student nurse aide what might have happened. Some minutes later, another student told her that the patient who was pronounced dead earlier was breathing. Out of curiosity, the head nurse went to the patient's room to see for herself what the fuss was all about. And lo, the patient was indeed breathing! She checked the patient's heart and respiratory rate and found out that it was almost normal. The old lady's blood pressure was still zero though and she is presently in a coma. However, the point is after more than an hour she suddenly started breathing again!

The doctors and staff were baffled. Even the relatives are puzzled over what just happened and know not whether to be joyful or scared of the whole incident.

The explanation for a phenomena like this will never be answered fully by any medical practitioner. Maybe it is one of those little miracles God throws on our path just so we may remember how powerful he really is.

I'm With You

If ever you were able to watch Happy Feet, then you would be familiar with the term "heart song". The little penguins were asked to sing their heart songs at the start of classes. These songs somehow best describe who they are and can be used as a basis for getting to know each other meetings and stuff like that.

Have you ever felt so alone, so empty? I have felt that frequently in the past and less frequently this days. But whenever there's this nagging feeling of loneliness, I can't easily brush it off. I feel light headed, my heart beats at irregular intervals, even my breathing is affected. It's as if everything is so superficial, so cold, so lonely. It's as if I have no one to turn to and those you expect will understand you suddenly leaves you.. all by yourself.

This song never fails to describe how I feel during these times of emptiness.

I'm With You Lyrics
Avril Lavigne


I'm standing on the bridge
I'm waiting in the dark
I thought that you'd be here by now
There's nothing but the rain
No footsteps on the ground
I'm listening but there's no sound

Isn't anyone tryin’ to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?

It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
But I... I'm with you
I'm with you

(Mmm..)

I'm looking for a place
I'm searching for a face
Is anybody here I know?
'Cause nothing's going right
And everything’s a mess
And no one likes to be alone

Isn't anyone tryin’ to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?

Oh!

Why is everything so confusing?
Maybe I'm just out of my mind

Yeahe yeahe yeah!..yeahe yeah, yeahe yeah, yeah yeah, YYYEEEAAAHHH!!...

It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
But I!

I'm with you!
I'm with you!

Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
But I!

I'm with you!
I'm with you!

Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
But I

I'm with you
I'm with you
I'm with you

How Santa Feels

Imagine saving money, a lot of money, for two semesters and then spending it in less than a week's time to buy presents. Imagine how it feels to have saved so much and spend nothing for yourself. Imagine what it feels to receive a gift every Christmas and then suddenly, one Christmas, nothing. Just imagine.

When I think really hard about how much I spent on presents alone and haven't bought any for myself or for Alex, a sudden rush of disappointment envelopes me. To top that off, I haven't seen a gift with my name on it under the tree! For a kid who's used to receiving gifts every Christmas, it feels awful.

But, let us look back to the time when I was shopping for presents. I really didn't have time to think about myself. All I thought of was "I think (insert name here) will be happy with this" and impulsively bought that/those gift(s). I spent sleepless nights (I'm a nocturnal person) wrapping gifts with an increasing feeling of excitement after each present was wrapped. Eaach day, I would bug my mom to open the gift I have for her (of course she said wait). I was more excited than those who will receive my gifts! Just the thought of how they will react after seeing what I got them for Christmas really makes me jittery. By and by it really didn't matter whether I'll receive any this season, heck I'm not even excited of getting any!

I guess that's one of the essentials of this season. It is when one has to learn what "selflessness" really means and feels. It is when one discovers the joy of giving and seeing others happy with what you gave them.

This Christmas, I am playing Santa Claus. I guess it comes with growing up. After all, I already had my share of gifts for the past seventeen years. Now it's my turn to make the little ones' holliday special.

The joy of Christmas gifts are for kids, the joy of giving Christmas gifts are for older folks.

A Little Something To Make You Smile

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you
would have produced enough sound energy to heat one
cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months,
enough gas is produced to create the energy of an
atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps
out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head
before it starves to death. (Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an
hour.
(Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality
over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm........)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years
longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(OK, so that would be a good thing....)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

I was sorting through my Yahoo! Mail yesterday and found this e-mail that I found rather funny. I might be posting old mail from my inbox every now and then.

By the way, these trivia are factual.

My Top Ten Christmas Wishlist

This list may seem selfish and oh so cruel to those whose minds are for the welfare of all mankind. I apologize if it may seem that way but I won't be a hypocrite and put here stuff that I really don't want. Why wish for something you don't like anyway?

Don't get me wrong. I still want world peace and stuff like that.

Here goes:

10: A Mac notebook
My laptops still working, yeah. But for business and aesthetic purposes I need a computer with more memory and speed. I also need a computer that I can bring wherever I want. At the same time my Gateway is sort of dilapidated so I want a new notebook that is better in terms of specs and looks.

9: A Sony Ericson K800i
I'm a camwhore. Excuse me for the term. An SE K800i is the phone for me because it functions as a phone and as a megapixel camera at the same time. So far, K800i is the best camera phone there is that is not too flashy in terms of looks (unlike the Nokia N Series), not too bulky, and can still function well as a regular phone. However, if you could offer me a phone with a built in force field and stun gun, I'd gladly pay for it. =D

8. A new wardrobe
I'm kinda tired of wearing the same old clothes each day to school. Yeah I have a lot of clothes but I don't wear all of them. I'll have to sort them out and dispose (a.k.a. give away or sell) those that I don't and will never wear. All I want are new styles of shirts and jeans and I'll be fine with that.

7. All expense paid trip to Hongkong Disneyland for five
Going to HK Disneyland won't be fun if you're all alone. Besides I've never been out of the country moreso I've never been to Disneyland. I want my first trip there to be uber fun and with my family and/or friends with me.

6. Calvin and Hobbes Seven Comic Book Collection
I LOVE Calvin and Hobbes. The whole collection costs around 3000 pesos and I can't afford it. So if you can please give it to me for Christmas, you'd make me happy. By the way, the comic book is available at Powerbooks. I'll be waiting. *sweet smile*

The next five things are what I need more.

5. A new umbrella
My umbrella's ancient! I've had it ever since I was in first year college. And because it's so ancient, two of it's eight wire that serves as support are wrecked. I still use it though because I can't force myself to buy a hundred and fifty umbrella from Watson's. I have to have something that's tougher than my old umbrella. NOTE: The umbrella should be BLUE.

4. Two bottles of Suave Hair Mousse
I had my hair permed and repermed and repermed and now the curls are not that visible because I've emptied my mousse bottle two weeks ago. I didn't buy a new bottle because I bought hair gel instead which was a lot cheaper BUT makes my hair as hard as metal wires. :(

3. Two yellow and orange Stabilo Boss Highlighters
I'm an OC when it comes to highlighting reading materials. Before school ended for Christmas, my highlighters were coloring pale yellow and very pale orange a grave sign that they are about to retire. I'll be needing new ones for next year. I need two so that the other pair will serve as reserve highlighters.

2. MONEY
I spent more than 5k on Christmas shopping this year. Huhuhuhu.. All my sem's savings.. Gone! And I haven't even bought anything for myself or for mom or for Alex. Too bad. The gifts were for the kids I know. I need to earn this Christmas through selling MP4s and stuff like that OR you could make my life easier and give me 5K in cold hard cash instead. *evil grin*

1. A daily devotional book
I need something to nourish me spiritually every day. If you can give me something other than The Daily Bread, something more insightful, something more.. I'd be so blessed. I have to do my QTs more regularly and a new devotional book is just what I need to fuel me.

To those who will grant my wishes, I thank you in advance. To those who won't, you'll have to double your gifts next year.

In A Week's Time

In a week's time the 25th of December, also known as the Christmas day will be arriving. People from almost all over the world will be celebrating or at the very least commemorating what this day stands for. But do they know what Christmas really signifies?

Within the last three weeks storm after storm has hit the Philippines. The last week of November brought with it supertyphoon Reming, which brought havoc to the Bicol area and other localities near Bicol. Before the first week of December was finished, typhoon Seniang hit the country terrorizing those in the Southern Tagalog region. On the third week of December the Philippines is once again drinking in the effects of now ongoing typhoon Tomas. Next week will be Christmas after that, what's next?

"Signs of the times are everywhere
There's a brand new feeling in the air."

First an outburst of wars we felt. Nation against nation, nation against itself. Then there were outbreaks of various diseases and at the same time an outbreak of numerous drugs to cure or at the very least suppress these diseases and make it seem like it's gone. This year we have felt five storms, where three of which came in a matter of days after the other. Is the end really about to come?

Sadly I am one of those Christians who are not well versed thus I could not give you the exact verses where the signs of the soon return are indicated. Despite that I truly believe that all these things that are happening right now and for the past years are designed to wake us up to the reality that we must be prepared for the return of Christ and for our final judgement.

No, I am not going to share with you the ever so cliched Christmas story. I'm pretty sure you know it. I am not also scaring you to the point that you'd end up having fellowship with a religious group you barely know and have faith in, in fear that you will not be saved. Fear cannot save a person, only faith to the true Savior and Redeemer.

So what is the point of this entry? I still don't know myself. All I am saying is by now we should be more conscious of what's happening around us, to our country, to our world. This is not a lecture entry, THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL to those who believe that they may start evaluating themselves and start reaching out to others, to those who don't that they may start reassessing themselves and decide, and to me that I may start becoming a better person physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and spiritually.

Believing in Christ is a win win situation.

If we believe, do His commands and at the end He and those that are written in the Bible are not true, we still lived a good life and touched other people's lives positively by doing so.

If we believe, do His commands and at the end He exists and all those that are written in the Bible are true, then we have a sure ticket to eternal life.

We have nothing to lose. Why not give faith in Christ a shot?